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Sunny Hostin’s Juror Claim Faces Backlash After Clancy Mistrial

By Drooid · Sep 29, 2026, 11:42 PM UTC · How we work

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Sunny Hostin said she was the holdout juror that secured the insanity verdict in the 1991 Rakowitz trial.
The trial ended with an insanity acquittal, while another juror held out on the desecration-of-remains count.
Hostin’s claim resurfaced after the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, where a holdout also blocked a near-unanimous verdict.
Critics such as Newsbusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck called Hostin’s juror story a ‘lazy take’ and ‘crock.’

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Story summary

Sunny Hostin said she was the holdout juror that secured the insanity verdict in the 1991 Rakowitz trial.
The trial ended with an insanity acquittal, while another juror held out on the desecration-of-remains count.
Hostin’s claim resurfaced after the Lindsay Clancy mistrial, where a holdout also blocked a near-unanimous verdict.
Critics such as Newsbusters Managing Editor Curtis Houck called Hostin’s juror story a ‘lazy take’ and ‘crock.’